“On the Fluid Mosaic”: Rodell Warner
Introduction I met Rodell Warner in Trinidad while he was collaborating at Alice Yard art residency in Trinidad and Tobago, […]
Totalizing a Partial View
Bitcoin is the world’s first and most successful digital currency. It is based on a protocol that was first proposed
The Financial Frontier is Hot #BitcoinDynamics
I started my journey with cryptocurrencies and blockchains as a Bitcoin miner in early 2013 (DuPont 2014). At the time
HODL, Patiently: On Vice and Virtue in the World of Bitcoin #BitcoinDynamics
On 18 of December 2013, amid another nerve-wrecking drop in the Bitcoin price, a pseudonymous user called GameKyuubi published a
#BitcoinDynamics: The Rhythms, Dynamics and Virtues of Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Blockchain In October 2008, a person or group of people using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto distributed online a
Walking in Young Peng’s Shoes
Fei Xiaotong, the late Chinese anthropologist, believed that the best way to study China was by acquiring “intensive, firsthand knowledge
Guessing, Wandering, Learning
This interactive piece was inspired by a year of teaching myself Old English, and my interest in the interactive ethnography,
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART II)
Let me begin this second part of my non-linear surveying of digital ethnographies by quoting the anthropologist Tom Boellstorff once
On Digital Ethnographies. Anthropology, Politics and Pedagogy (PART I)
I’ll start with the most embarrassingly candid disclosure one could possibly make in the context of this thematic week: I
Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations